Network Booting

My linux nodes use RealTek chips and I have been doing network
installation and booting fine. The procedure is a little involved,
and I do have some step-by-step notes here:
http://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov/yudong/notes/net-install.txt
I hope this can help with your Q1,2,3.
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Yudong Tian, Ph.D. NASA/GSFC (301) 286-2275
> -----Original Message-----
> From: beowulf-admin at scyld.com [mailto:beowulf-admin at scyld.com]On Behalf
> Of torsten
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:08 AM
> To: beowulf at beowulf.org> Subject: Network Booting
>>> Good Morning:
>> I've been struggling for days to make a single computer be able to
> network boot. I've read many documents, and I'm a little confused.
> Here are some questions, and I am very grateful for assistance, in
> advance.
>> 1. I've seen references to bootp/dhcp, bootp or dhcp, bootp and dhcp,
> dhcp over bootp - Which one do I need. Do I need both bootp and dhcp?
>> 2. My Lab is on the University subnet. Will my bootp/dhcp server
> conflict with the university system? Do I need to isolate my lab with
> IP masq first?
>> 3. On which broadcast/subnet does PXE send bootp requests. Does it make
> a difference, with PXE, whether I use bootp or DHCP?
>> 4. What are people using to setup/install partitions? I've seen bpbatch
> and ka-tools. I'm interested in GPL software, primarily.
>> 5. Are there any known problems with Realtek PXE ROMS? My network cards
> are system integrated Realtek's.
>> 6. Should I just download and setup the MOSIX stuff?
>> 7. Does the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) have anything useful
> that I could/should be using?
>> Thanks, Torsten
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